On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 at 20:47:47 +0000, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
(Packages that ship test results/tools and want to make this optional are probably supposed to use DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=noinsttest instead.)
For the record: For packages that ship test tools (automated tests, manual tests or examples to be run at a later time), and want to make them optional, yes they are supposed to use DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=noinsttest instead of nocheck. For example, gtk4 and libsdl3 implement this correctly, to the best of my ability; so do dbus and glib2.0, which have more complicated interactions with other build profiles like nocheck. For packages that ship test *results*, the recommendation is "don't" (because in practice it's very rare for them to be reproducible) and this is out-of-scope for DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=noinsttest. <https://wiki.debian.org/BuildArtifacts> and <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sbuild/-/merge_requests/14> are a possible solution to that, which I should pick up and revisit at some point (it's on my list but my list is very long). smcv
